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I start working on AMD EYPC Milan platform (Dell R7525) and noticed BIOS settings such as NUMA Nodes Per Socket and L3 cache as NUMA Domain. What's the recommendation and impact? Any other settings I should be aware of? Thanks Mark

I have a pair of arista 7050qx-32s behind 1120 and running into NAT access issues. I have over a dozen vlans between FW and switches. From 1120 I am able to ping 7050 and internal servers but remote access via NAT timed out. From the packet trace I can see traffic went all the way from FW to...

Had a bad drive failed in a zpool with 12 x 2 TB mirror pool. Removed the failed drive with a new one and start the drive replace process. Looks like the zpool is in resilvering loop somehow. It went 100% on the resilver process then start process all over again and again. It has been 2 weeks...

Is there possible to enable iSER on OmniOS? I was able to get standard iSCSI working with ESXi, but no luck with iSER. What's the best way to create an iSER target? (if needed) OmniOS Build - omniosce-r151034 NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-4 Napp-IT: 19.12 Client ESXi 7.0 NIC: Mellanox Connect 3 with...

I tried a fresh install with Solaris 11.3 using ConnectX3 VPI connect to a 40Gbe switch, it shows IB as connection instead of ethernet. Same result with OmniOS. Is there a way to change the ConnectX3 VPI to ethernet? It works fine in Windows OS. Thanks in advance!

Need some assistant on Xeon Platinum 8160, please let me know if you have the CPU on hands load. Thanks!

Due to hardware issues, I had to move everything to a different system. Same model server, and move all HBA, NICs to the new server with the same PCI-E slot. After import the pool everything is back online except LU shows unregistered. I tried to run stmfadm import-lu, it shows meta file...

Just updated TD340 to the latest BIOS web console. System won't boot after that. It does power on and I am able to access IPMI console, but that's it. Tried Lenovo BIOS recovery procedure without any luck. Any suggestions?

Very interesting article from MS Blog. Don’t do it: consumer-grade solid-state drives (SSD) in Storage Spaces Direct

Great price, if you have 8% ebay bucks it will be less than $600 from newegg ebay! Intel 750 Series AIC 1.2TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SS 735858303415 | eBay

Looking for 1 or 2 E5-2400 v2 cpu. Anyone get good suggestions?

A great entry lab server. Much better configuration than the Lenovo ThinkServer TD340 $449 we had in the early summer https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkserver-td340-449.5760/ The spec is not very accurate on newegg. The server has 8 x DIMM for DDR4. deal link HP...

This is a pool with 4 mirror of 450 GB 15K SAS drives. The log device is a SLC Fusion-IO card. I am impressed by 636MB/s. How's everyone else log's performance? capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write ---------- ----- -----...

Saw some every interesting chassis at VMworld. They should be released very soon according to the product manager. See all the NVMe bays~~ 20150831_172338.jpg - Google Drive

Some notes from VMworld. vRDMA is give VM the ability to utilize RDMA function. Unlike single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) which pass the entire card to a single VM. This feature will allow multiple VMs to share the same NIC/HCA. This is definitely a step forward from VMware on high...

Anyone at vmworld this week?

Lenovo ThinkServer TD340 Tower Server System Intel Xeon E5-2403 v2 70B5001TUX - Newegg.com Intel Xeon E5-2403 v2 1.80 GHz Tower Server with Optional Dual-Processors 8GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory Capacity : Up to 192GB Serial ATA & SAS RAID Levels: 0, 1, 1+0 It comes with free 2TB Seagate Constellation...

Anyone get a E5-2403 v2 want to sell? Please PM for price. Thanks!

Loaded vSphere beta driver 1.8.3 to ESXi 6.0 The storage is Solaris 11.2. 2 x L5630 CPU, 24 GB RAM. 4 x SSD for L2ARC. 8 x 450GB 15K SAS drive (4 x mirror). HBA LSI 9207-8e. ConnectX-2 VPI 2.10.700 firmware Test VM is 2 vCPU, 4 GB memory iSER Throughput 1700 MB/s Still as not as good as SRP...

This is a beta driver for Mellanox 1.8.3 for vSphere. MLNX-OFED-ESX-1.8.3 Main Changes (from 1.8.2.4) --------------------------------------------------- - Added iSER support Get it from the link below when still available. salesforce.com iSCSI RDMA (iSER) Performance Acceleration - Demo...